Salman Rushdie Quotes
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant -
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Harold E. Varmus -
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone -
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
Paracelsus -
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons -
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall -
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso -
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
Frances McDormand -
Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
Kapil Sibal -
The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
Bar Refaeli
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Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
Willard Scott -
I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
Lynn Davies -
But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.
Mary Oliver -
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
Muhammad Ali -
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
William Sloane Coffin -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie